UK opts for emissions intensity limit to end coal-fired power by 2025

The UK government is to introduce a carbon dioxide emissions intensity limit as its primary policy measure to ensure that unabated coal-fired electricity generation ends by its stated deadline of 2025.

Publishing its response to a consultation launched in November 2016 – which attracted almost 6,000 responses – the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), said: “We consider that an emissions intensity limit of...

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